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Mustafa Suleyman
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Mustafa Suleyman is the head of AI at Microsoft.
Notable Quotes
""seemingly conscious" AI products "kept him awake at night" because he was so worried about their impact on society."View Story →
"We must not sleepwalk our way into a decision we later come to bitterly regret."View Story →
"AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer."View Story →
"criticised Anthropic, claiming they were training their AI to believe it was human, which could make it impossible to control."View Story →
"Reacted to Anthropic's update with a melting face emoji."View Story →
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